MOCHE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE IN ANCIENT PERU

In this study, Margaret Jackson analyzes Moche ceremonial architecture and ceramics to propose the workings of a widely understood v isual language. Using an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates archaeology and linguistics with art history and studies of vi sual culture, Jackson looks at the symbolism of Moche art as a form of communication, the social mechanisms that produced it, and ho w it served to maintain the Moche social fabric.